Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.